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Robert Hodges: Virtual IP Addresses and Their Discontents for Database...
Virtual IP addresses or VIPs are commonly used to enable database high availability. A standard failover design uses an active/passive DBMS server pair connected by replication and watched by a...
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Leo Hsu and Regina Obe: On Book writing and upcoming talking speaking...
We are on the final stretch of our book writing adventure. All the chapters are done and more or less finalized. We are now going over the proofs of the chapters making last minute corrections before...
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Thom Brown: Performance changes in 9.1
The upcoming PostgreSQL 9.1 release is packed full of awesome new features, but let's not forget the performance improvements which will also arrive with it. Every version of PostgreSQL brings about...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: The 64bit question
Regina made an interesting point the other day, namely that the free (as in beer) Microsoft tools don't support building 64 bit binaries. That's fairly ugly, and I wasn't aware of it. And it makes me...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: /me joins EnterpriseDB!
I could not be happier... After I decided to leave markafoni, and when I started to look for a new job, EnterpriseDB approached me very nicely, and now I'm a part of that great team. I'd like thank Ed,...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Going to FOSDEM
A quick blog entry to say that yes: And I will even do my Extension's talk which had a success at pgday.eu. The talk will be updated to include the last developments of the extension's feature, as some...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Handy git tip number 37
I re-discovered this the other day while committing something for PostgreSQL. Say you're working on something and want to pull in the latest changes from a remote. You do "'git pull" but it fails...
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Robert Haas: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, Part 2: VACUUM vs. Purge
Almost two months ago, I wrote part one of what I indicated would be an occasional series of blog posts comparing the architecture of PostgreSQL to that of MySQL. Here's part two. Please note that...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: MongoDB at PgEast.... say what?
I was surprised at first too but I have been talking to quite a few community members for MongoDB and due to the positive responses, PostgreSQL Conference East is going to be host to the excellent...
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Joe Abbate: Version Control, Part I: Pre-SQL
A version control system (VCS) such as Git or Subversion is an indispensable component of modern software projects. Many applications use a relational database management system (DBMS) such as...
View ArticleKenny Gorman: PGEast and MongoDB?
When I first started playing with MongoDB I accidentially posted my posts in a category that got them put up on Planet PostgreSQL. I remember getting some pretty pissed off emails and comments. Beyond...
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Thom Brown: FOSDEM, here we come!
FOSDEM is running this weekend in Brussels, and there are a plethora of talks to attend. Naturally I'll be very interested in the PostgreSQL-related talks, and they are as follows:Sunday -...
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David Fetter: Conferety-conf-conf-conf
I'm at the very exciting PostgreSQL Sessions in Paris, where I just talked about DBI-Link, and where I'll talk about PL/Parrot to a frighteningly large room. Continue reading "Conferety-conf-conf-conf"
View ArticleBaron Schwartz: MySQL and PostgreSQL cross-links
A couple of extremely informative recent blog posts have gone to either Planet MySQL or Planet PostgreSQL, but not both, and I think everyone on both aggregators who cares about database internals...
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Bernd Helmle: FOSDEM, the same procedure as every year
So FOSDEM starts this weekend again...and again i will attend, especially on sunday. Meet the PostgreSQL guys, hear the talks in the PostgreSQL devroom and maybe get some other interesting news from...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Why PostgreSQL Doesn't Have Query Hints
Recently on the pgsql-performance mailing list an Oracle DBA launched an argument we seem to see about once a year on some PostgreSQL mailing list: a proposal that we support Query Hints. As always,...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: PGXN API RFC
Things slowed up a bit over the last couple of months, I admit. There are any number of reasons for that, not the least were the intrusion of the holidays and a little side project I’ve been hacking on...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: PostgreSQL for Servoy Developers
The slides from my presentation on PostgreSQL for Servoy Developers, presented at ServoyWorld 2011, are available here.
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Pavel Stehule: SQL/PSM runtime
I enhanced a PLPSM executor engine to show a more informations when exception is raised. Now PLPSM has same and maybe better error processing than PL/pgSQL. - Almost all code coming from PL/pgSQL....
View ArticleTheo Schlossnagle: #ywahusty
Defining the term: I recently used a term and was hit with a lot of out-of-band requests for explanation. It's a good one and excellent food for thought. ywahusty (yuh-wuh-hus-tee): you will always...
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